Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-17

is also a good deal of money being ex-
pended in smaller shops.
TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS
complain of the damage done by the i'm
porsed goods. There scenes TO beno pros
poets OF checking this business. Nearly all
the western railroad companies are build
ing machine shops TO make cars and rail
way supplies. The Missouri Pacific Com
pany are building a shop that will cost
SSOO,OOO. Another ear wheel shop is
being put In Missouri that will turn out l.
goo wheels per week. During the coming
winter n vast amOut OF railruad bridge
building will be done in the West and the
labor Of several thousand men will be en-
gagged.
The tailors of the United States will
hold a convention in New York August
Sth. A glass factory will start in Atlanta,
August Is, In Michigan there are over
300 assemblies of the Knights of Labor.
The painters of the United States will
hold q convention in Philadelphia July
q. Cotton factories are s~pringing up in
the New England States in spite of south
ern competition. So far this month 1900
woTkmen have struck for higher wages.
Building operations in western cities range
from - to 30 per cent in access OF last year.
II COKE WORKERS
are preparing to make n set contest with
the PInkertOn force and the fight will
likely be a long one. There is q scarcity
ct labor especially in the building trades
throughout the larger eastern cities. Syn
dictates of capitalists from northern cities
are making extensive purchases OF timber
and mineral lands in the South. Arbitra-
ton is making very poor Roadway among
the labor organizations. The miners
national district of the Knights Of Labor
is coming in for a good deal ofdenuncistion.
The New York politicians do not know
how TO either corner or crush or buy the
labor vote. The Henry George movement
is gaining ground. The terrible loss OF
lite among the New York tenement houses
is likely to lead to an effort to do away
with the worst of them and establish bet
ter houses.
The w~orkingmen throughout the country
are in a better shape this summer than
last. There is less of q striking spirit than
ever before. The striking spirit is subsid-
ing. Employers are coming together and
forming more compact organizations.
RAILROAD BUILDING
will reach II, 900 miles of main track this
year and about 5000 miles Of side track
and repairage. There will be no general
labor movement this year for higher wages,
but organizations will be made compact
for an effort TO advance wages next year.
An effort will be made to secure to the
w~orkinymen of the country more leisure
during the hot weather. Propositions will
be made ut the next convention OF the
Knights of Labor looking to an organized
suspension of the entire trades for one, two
OF three weeks during the summer. The
object OF this will be to assist employers IN
restricting production that stocks may be
kept under control and that wOrkingmen
will have leisure when they val it rather
than nave it enforced upon them when they
can less afford it. il is not Intended IN this
movement when there is al urgent demand
for products but simply to restrict when 1t
is TO their best advantage. Employers
have already organized for this purpose
and the working men Of the country are
beginning to feel that a step OF this kind
will be imperatively necessary.